Tag: The Necessity of Standards

In my engineering career the number three comes up often. A good software engineer goes through loops at least 3 times to check their software. You need to ask a manager three times to get the approval to do something new. One summer three interns came under my tutelage. That year our group could hire…

In Doc Fry’s electronics class, I learned my first engineering standard: resistor color coding. Each color represented a number. Each color also represented a multiplier–power of ten. Some colors also represented a tolerance. The position of the color band indicated how to interpret the color as a number, multiplier or tolerance. A simple standard for…